Integrating planning tool for Terra Mystica

[Rincevent123]

Hi,
I have created a small online planning tool for Terra Mystica to plan player next round in advance (you can find it here: https://rincevent.github.io/TerraMysticaTurnCalculator/).
Currently it is pretty simple but I would like to enhance it for instance to compute expected scoring and expected resource income for the next round. However to do that I would need to have access to the game data for a given player(e.g; how many structure are already built, what favor and scoring tile are in play, etc.).

My question is two fold:
- Is there a way to access such information about a given game from the outside of Board Game Arena maybe through public API (with the player having to be logged in to BGA to access the info)?
- If not, would it be possible to integrate such tool directly inside BGA and then have a direct access to the data needed? The snellman platform already provides such planning tool for their TM game. I believe it could benefit the player to have access to such a tool in game on BGA as well.

[PurplishCat]

Short answer: It's software; anything is possible.

Longer answer: I don't think expecting an API to get Terra Mystica game state is realistic. But Terra Mystica is open information. You can write a screen scraper to read the data from a player's screen. You could also write a GreaseMonkey script or whatever to automate it.

[Rincevent123]

OK thanks, I hoped to avoid having to write a screen scraper but if there is no other ways that is what I will do then.

[Tisaac]

OK thanks, I hoped to avoid having to write a screen scraper but if there is no other ways that is what I will do then.

I would strongly advise to first read threads on the 7Wonders forum about Pythia :
https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... 92&t=16538

[RicardoRix]

- Is there a way to access such information about a given game from the outside of Board Game Arena maybe through public API (with the player having to be logged in to BGA to access the info)?

Yes there is, a much more direct and easy way, bring all the goodness that you have in mind to everyone in a fair way, Just add any additional functionality to the game code itself. Best would be to add a game option to turn this stuff on or off as the table creator prefers.
https://en.studio.boardgamearena.com/

Do not go down the Pythia route.

[Rincevent123]

Thanks for the info.
I will integrate it in the game if is possible.

Somebody called aIex in BGA Studio and TheRedMachine in BGA is the admin for the game. Do you know how I could contact him to talk about this?

[Victoria_La]

Terra Mystica is done by Een - bga admin, you would have to ask him directly